Thesis: Human Capital Policy: Three Empirical Essays
Committee: William Dickens, James Dana, Bilge Erten
Initial Position: Assistant Professor at Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Istanbul, Turkey
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Contact: http://econ.itu.edu.tr/en/academic_staff/faculty-member/aysun-hiziroglu
Lihua Han
Thesis: Three Essays on Trust, Geography and Price in Online Market
Committee: James Dana, Imke Reimers, Gustavo Vicentini, Zhongmin Wang
Initial Position: Senior Associate, Acquisition Modelling at Discover Financial Services, Chicago, IL
Thomas PlaHovinsak
Thesis: Three Essays on Housing Policy and Inequality
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, James Dana
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Economics at Longwood University, Farmville, VA
Thesis: Three Empirical Essays in Labor Economics
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Gregory Wassall
Initial Position: Economist at Moody's Analytics, West Chester, PA
Current Position: Associate Director/Senior Economist at Moody's Analytics, West Chester, PA
Chengyan Gu
Thesis: Three Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization and Merger Policy
Committee: John Kwoka, James Dana, Steven Morrison
Initial Position: Consultant at World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Current Position: JP Morgan Chase
Shaun Patrick O'Brien
Thesis: Three Essays on Labor Economics
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Osborne Jackson
Initial Position: Economist at San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Thesis: Three Essays on Competition and Productivity in the U.S. Airline Industry
Committee: Steven Morrison, James Dana, John Kwoka
Initial Position: Consultant/Economist at World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Laura Wholley-Olive
Thesis: Three Essays on the Impact of Market Structure on Network Industries
Committee: John Kwoka, James Dana, Gustavo Vicentini
Initial Position: Consultant at NERA Economic Consulting, Boston, MA
Current Position: Associate Director at NERA Economic Consulting, Boston, MA
Rand Ghayad
Thesis: Long-term Unemployment in the Great Recession
Committee: William Dickens, Hugh Courtney, Maria Luengo-Prado, Robert Triest
Initial Position: Economic Expert at Brattle Group, Cambridge, MA
Current Position: Economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Xiaoting Hu (Maggie)
Thesis: Three Empirical Essays in Industrial Organization
Committee: James Dana, John Kwoka, Zhongmin Wang
Initial Position: Quantitative Research Analyst at State Street Global Advisors, Boston, MA
Current Position: Quantitative Analyst at Windhaven Investment Management, Boston, MA
Sean Isakower
Thesis: Three Essays on Edgeworth Price Cycles in Western Australia
Committee: James Dana, John Kwoka, Zhongmin Wang
Initial Position: Associate Economist at New York State Department of Public Service, Albany, NY
Irena Vasileva Tsvetkova
Thesis: Consequences of Biotech Innovation in Crop Seed
Committee: James Dana, John Kwoka, Kyle Stiegert, Gustavo Vicentini
Initial Position: Senior Associate at Charles River Associates, Boston, MA
Current Position: Associate at Analysis Group, Boston, MA
Thesis: Three Essays in Labor Economics
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Andrew Sum
Initial Position: Assistant Professor at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
Ceren Ertan Yoruk
Thesis: Three Essays on the Impacts of Public Policies on Labor Market and Health Outcomes
Committee: William Dickens, Osborne Jackson, Maria Luengo Prado, Andrew Sum
Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Economics at Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
Current Position: Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of School of Management at Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
Man Jia
Thesis: Essays on Human Capital, Expectations and Behaviors
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Andrew Sum
Initial Position: Senior Fiscal and Policy Analysis at Iowa Department of Revenue, Des Moines, IA
Kamen P. Madjarov
Thesis: Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
Committee: John Kwoka, Kamran Dadkhah, Zhongmin Wang
Initial Position: Senior Predictive Analytics Engineer at Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA
Current Position: Senior Director of Data Science Team at PowerAdvocate, Boston, MA
Tess Forsell Hubbard
Thesis: Three Essays on Consumer Credit History and the Labor Market
Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Osborne Jackson
Initial Position: Economist at Eastern Research Group, Charlottesville, VA
Committee: John Kwoka, Kamran Dadkhah, James Dana
Initial Position: Associate at Synapse Energy Economics, Cambridge, MA
Current Position: Director of Global Best Practices at Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA
Evgenia Shumilkina
Thesis: Three Essays on Merger Policy and Regulatory Policy
Committee: John Kwoka, Kamran Dadkhah, James Dana
Initial Position: Consultant/Economist at World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Daniel J. Greenfield
Thesis: Three Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
Committee: James Dana, John Kwoka, Steven Morrison, Zhongmin Wang
Initial Position: Economist in Antitrust I Division at the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
Renee Michelle Duplantis
Thesis: Estimating and Predicting Merger Effects and Pass-through Rates
Committee: John Kwoka, Steven Morrison, Rick Warren-Boulton
Initial Position: Economist at Microeconomic Consulting and Research Associates, Washington, D.C.
Current Position: Principal at Brattle Group, Toronto, ON, Canada
Andrea Germiniasi
Thesis: Labor Market Imperfections: Effects on Occupational Injuries and Earnings
Committee: Neil Alper, William Dickens, Andrew Sum
Initial Position: Senior Research Analyst at SEIU Healthcare NW 775, Seattle, WA
Current Position: Senior Labor Economist at Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Thesis: Three Essays on Buyer Power Theory, Dominant HMOs and Technology Transfer
Committee: James Dana, Kamran Dadkhah, John Kwoka
Initial Position: Assistant Director of Product Research at Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA
Current Position: Senior Director of Data Science at Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA
Thesis: Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Restructuring
Committee: John Kwoka, James Dana, Michael Politt
Initial Position: Associate at Brattle Group, Cambridge, MA
Current Position: Principal at Brattle Group, Cambridge, MA